Jazz y cine hasta 1960: contexto y paradigmas

Abstract

Jazz and cinema share the era of their beginnings and have evolved while maintaining a close relationship with popular culture. In the interplay between jazz and cinema, it is considered a «jazz cinema», where jazz becomes the subject of the visuals, being the absolute protagonist in documentary films about jazz or an indispensable atmosphere in movies featuring real or fictional jazz professionals. Additionally, there is «cinematic jazz», where jazz serves as a sonic instrument in the development of the dramatic plot. A hybrid intersection exists in the connections between jazz and the film noir genre. We present a historical account that spans from the dawn of this relationship in the silent film era to the end of the 1950s, illustrated with numerous examples (context). We also take a closer look at two iconic films, such as Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Malle, 1957) y Anatomy of a murder (Preminger, 1959), paradigms.